Melman and Gloria were enjoying their morning stroll together. They've been together for quite some time and they were very much in love.
The entire savannah was teeming with life being in the middle of the lovin' season. Couples were on branches, the rocks, the water, the mud, and… hidden dark caves. Gloria started to notice that not only that they were in love but pregnant too. She saw the birds in their nests full of eggs and wilder beast couple nuzzling each other. The girl wilder beast looked clearly that she was expecting. She sighed. "What's wrong?" Melman asked.
"Oh nothing… have you ever thought about…" Gloria started to say.
"Thought about what?" Melman questioned.
"Well, you know… about… being a parent…" Gloria continued.
"Nnnnoooo not really…" Melman answered uneasily. Some rustling was heard in the distance.
"Well, I do, I… want to," Gloria softly said.
"Children!" Melman exclaimed. "Y-y-y-you know how much they cost? They are very expensive to care for! Think about the medical bills! It is very hard to cure Lyme disease out in the wild!"
"Have you every thought about the joy kids would bring?" Gloria asked.
Melman quietly shook his head. The rustling was a bit harsher.
"I wanna be mom," Gloria said, making the decision straight and true.
Melman got a little annoyed. "Well how are you going to do that Mrs.… mom… whatever… I'm giraffe you're a hippo… it's an inconvenient truth," Melman pointed out.
"We can always adopt!" Gloria shouted in a way.
"Now who would give up their kid?" Melman shouted (in a way) back.
By that time the rustling stopped and out popped from the bushes a white egg. It rolled to Gloria's feet. She picked it up. "oooooo! It's still warm! I can feel it move!" Gloria cooed.
"H-h-how do you know it's fertilized?" Melman asked uneasily.
Gloria raised the egg to the African sun. Sure enough there was an embryo there. The egg seemed to cast of its own wondrous light. An angelic choir could be heard somewhere of in the distance or is it just me? All the animals raised their heads looking at the beautiful white round egg. They came towards it. "Oh that's the most beautiful perfect round egg!" a wilder beast cried.
"Look its… glowing! How can it do that?" a water buffalo exclaimed.
"Congratulations you two must've be very proud parents!" a rhino said to Gloria and Melman. Gloria smiled.
"How do you two do it!" a hippo asked. Melman stared at the ignorant hippo.
"Well it just rolled to my feet," Gloria tried to explain.
"That's it the prophecy!" a scrawny vulture exclaimed. He looked like an old beggar with wounds birds are picking on and a horrible breath of rum… there are things you should not know. Animals walked out of way everytime he went an inch close to them, as if scared.
"What prophecy?" Melman asked.
"Have you not heard of the prophecy?" the scrawny vulture, whose name was Zuri, said. "A radiant egg born to a long necked father and a plump mother will be the savior!"
All the animals awed and drew closer to the egg. Gloria shielded the egg from the awe stricken bunch.
"The savior from what?" Melman asked.
"The evil one who eats aaaaaaaalllll!" Zuri hissed, smacking his mouth. "Now give me the egg!"
"No he's mine! Plus why you want him any way?" Gloria asked.
"I jus wanna look at him closely." Zuri answered, eying the egg. "its not like every day a savior is born,"
Gloria and Melman looked at each other uneasily. "So you think this child brings joy?" Melman asked.
